title: [Transforming growth factor beta alleviates acute graft-versus-host-disease after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation in murine model].
abstract: This study was purposed to investigate the effects and mechanism of transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) on acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD) after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (allo-BMT). The recipients were male BABL/c mice, while the donors were male C57BL/6 mice. The murine model of aGVHD had been established by allo-BMT with donor derived T cells. Experiment was divided into four groups: control group, radiation control group, transplantation control group and TGF-beta treated group. Mice in TGF-beta treated group were daily subcutaneously injected TGF-beta1 (1 microg/kg) in two days before transplantation until seven days after it. The results showed that the survival time of mice in TGF-beta treated group was significantly longer than that in transplantation control group, and the aGVHD pathological changes in TGF-beta treated group were milder than that in transplantation control group. At seven days after transplantation, the level of IL-2 in TGF-beta treated group was significantly higher than that in control group, but significantly lower than that in transplantation control group. The level of IL-10 in TGF-beta treated group was significantly higher than that in transplantation control group, but the level of IL-10 in transplantation control group was significantly lower than that in other groups. It is concluded that TGF-beta may alleviate or suppress lethal aGVHD, and elevate the survival rate after allo-BMT in murine model. Accommodating of the Th1 and Th2 cytokine levels is the possible mechanism of TGF-beta preventing lethal aGVHD.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hematology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100050, China.
authors.forename: Yi-Ni
authors.initials: YN
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Cui-Cui
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Jin-Li
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Fang
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.forename: Zhao
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation / Q000379:methods; D006086:Graft vs Host Disease / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016753:Interleukin-10 / Q000097:blood; D007376:Interleukin-2 / Q000097:blood; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D016212:Transforming Growth Factor beta / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous
chemical_list: D007376:Interleukin-2; D016212:Transforming Growth Factor beta; D016753:Interleukin-10